omi

omi

See also: Omi, OMI, ómi, and ömi

English

Alternative forms

• homee, homie, omee

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Italian uomo (“man”).

Noun

omi (plural omis)

1. (Polari) A man.
   • 1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12:

     Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vadaïng the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by, or disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.

   • 1997, Gardiner, James, Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, page 123:

     Well, she schlumphed her Vera down the screech at a rate of knots, zhooshed up the riah, checked the slap in the mirror behind the bar, straightened up one ogle fake riah that had come adrift, and bold as brass orderlied over as fast as she could manage in those bats and, in her best lips, asked, if she could parker the omi a bevvy.

Derived terms

• charpering omi, feely-omi, omi-palone, palone-omi

Anagrams

• IMO, IOM, Imo, MOI, Mio, imo, mo'i, moi

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -omi

Verb

omi

1. third-person singular past indicative of omia
2. present active indicative connegative of omia
3. second-person singular present imperative of omia
4. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of omia

Anagrams

• moi

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Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese homem. Cognate with Kabuverdianu ómi.

Noun

omi

1. man (adult male)

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Igala

Etymology

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ó-mĩ. Cognate with Igbo mmiri, Yoruba omi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ó.mī/

Noun

ómi

1. water

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Japanese

Romanization

omi

1. Rōmaji transcription of おみ

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Venetian

Noun

omi

1. plural of omo

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Volapük

Pronoun

omi

1. (accusative singular of om) him

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Yoruba

Omi

Etymology

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ó-mĩ. Cognate with Igbo mmiri, Igala ómi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ō.mĩ̄/

Noun

omi

1. water
   • 1975, Fela Kuti, Water No Get Enemy

     Kò sóhun tó o lè ṣe kó má lomi o/ Omi ò lọ́tàá o. ― There’s nothing you can do without water/ Water doesn’t have enemies.

2. (chiefly CY and SEY) river

   Synonyms: odò, ẹri

Derived terms

• olómi (“owner of water”)
• omi dídì (“snow, ice”)
• omi ẹran (“broth, gravy”)
• omi iyọ̀ (“salt water”)
• omijé (“tear”)
• omíra (“amniotic fluid”)
• omi wàrà (“"milk water," whey”)
• owó omi (“water bill”)

 

References

• Adetugbọ A. The Yoruba language in Western Nigeria: Its major dialect areas , 1967

• Dictionary of the Yoruba Language (1913)
• J. S. Olaoye, Principles and Concepts of Yoruba Language (2012)